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Allensby Charity Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST MARIN SENIOR SERVICES | $3,000 |
| MARIN FOSTER CARE | $2,500 |
| COMM INST FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| IN SPIRIT | $2,000 |
| MARIN PREGNANCY CLINIC | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| MARIN SYMPHONY YOUTH | $1,500 |
| MARIN ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT | $1,500 |
| TAM HOUSE | $1,500 |
| WEDNESDAY'S GIFT | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| MARIN BALLET | $1,000 |
| BUCKELEW PROGRAMS | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WMWest Marin Senior Services9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +186%
- MPMARIN PREGNANCY CLINIC9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +47%
- CICOMMUNITY INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- YYMCAone grant, 2020 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…
We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.
Senior Access's mission is to help Marin's older and disabled adults remain independent and part of the community for as long as possible.
The mission of Marin Ventures is to serve adults with developmental disabilities by fostering independence, personal growth, and promoting the opportunity for community integration based upon individual need.Marin Ventures is an Adult…
The mission of the agricultural institute of marin is to educate, inspire, and connect communities, farmers, and producers in order to create a healthy, earth-friendly, equitable local and regional food and agricultural system.
Community support for Developmentally Disabled Adults, with a main emphasis on helping people to obtain and maintain real jobs in local businesses.
Provide supported employment programs and independent living skills training for individuals with unique capabilities but limited access to the community.
The mission of mariposa women and family center is to help women and families make positive changes in their lives.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Provide continued rehabilitation, hope, and community for people affected by brain injury.
To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.
Vivalon advances independence, health and quality of life for older adults and people with disabilities. Through a comprehensive, integrated program of active aging services, we provide specialized transportation, nutrition programs,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Marin Senior Services and the most unlike its peers is Wednesdays Gift. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds West Marin Senior Services ↗
- Who funds MARIN PREGNANCY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY ↗
- Who funds HALLECK CREEK RANCH ↗
- Who funds THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH ↗
- Who funds MARIN ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS OF MARIN ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gilead House ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds LIFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds BUCKELEW PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds The Novato Human Needs Center ↗
- Who funds WEDNESDAYS GIFT ↗
- Who funds North Marin Community Services ↗
- Who funds BLOOM MARIN ↗
- Who funds MARIN CIVIC BALLET ASSOCIATION DBA MARIN BALLET ↗
- Who funds IN SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION ACCREDITATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY WORKS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Bothin Foundation · The William H Donner Foundation Inc · Heffernan Group Foundation · Extrafood · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · GEORGE H SANDY FOUNDATION co US BANKNA · Peter E Haas Jr Family Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Allensby Charity Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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